tomnipotent

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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
None of your examples pass any of the checks for a monopoly unless you twist the definition of "market" to be the narrowest possible. Situational exclusivity is not the same as a monopoly, and these examples don't pass the hy
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
There is no legal, economic, or dictionary definition of monopoly that supports your position. The closest example is "aftermarket" (what you call vertical) following the 90's Kodak SC case, which has long since fizzled out.
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
It's amazing how many people throw around the word monopoly without remotely understanding what it means.
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
Those prices don't need to bake in the training cost, since it was eaten by someone else (whomever trained the open source models). Anthropic et al. need to price in the whole lifecycle.
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by tomnipotent 3mo ago
A web form assumes the input is or can be made structured, or that you have a user that is willing to fill in a form (vs. writing an email). An LLM is great at taking free-form/unstructured content and mapping it nicely to a structured
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
More than two decades, folks were grumbling about this in the SOA days.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
Not to mention it can query across heterogeneous sources, so the same query can use a duckdb table, sqlite, csv, and parquet (including predicate pushdown).
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
It doesn't matter what Google makes money from, it matters what they pay Mozilla for. And they pay Mozilla exclusively rev share on ads, nothing else.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
Without the ads, there would be no payments to Mozilla. It's absolutely 100% unequivocably ad money.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
Apparently you don't understand what bankruptcy means. A company can run out of funds and not be able to meet payroll without declaring bankruptcy, they're different things. But by all means keep talking out of your ass.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
MySQL has advocated for decades spinning up a replica with the upgraded version, waiting for it to catch up to master before promoting it to the new master. You can do the same thing with Postgres.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
No one said anything about bankruptcy, you seem to have made that up for your "argument" or whatever this is. The company didn't have a viable business model and was running out of cash. MSFT right-sized the team for the proj
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
The company raised $10M, did two rounds of layoffs totaling a quarter of the company, and was then acquired not long after. Early stage companies like that don't do layoffs unless it's to extend cash runway, but run wild with what
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
Right, the very public two rounds of layoffs the company did right before being "acquired" had nothing to do with them running out of money.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
It's literally a Google search away. If you had the time to write this comment, you had more than enough time to do the search.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
> they fired many staff engineers Would you rather the company went under after it ran out of money and had to fire everyone instead? Not to mention a quarter of the company was laid off the year before the acquisition.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
> database engine sets up the join Every major database uses nested loop, hash, or sort-merge joins. If the data is small enough to fetch in a second query, I don't see any scenario where it would make a query spill to disk when it
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
I'm not sure I follow. Fetching the data in one query should almost always be faster and more efficient - the same work is being done regardless, except now you have the additional overhead involved with a second query (network and con
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
You're welcome to do the search yourself, but I'm guessing you won't because it too conveniently debunks your claim/marketing pitch. I've sold close to $1B on Shopify in the last decade and have never had a problem
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
Or were you doing something shady that was legitimate grounds for Shopify to remove those products? There's a big difference between what you personally think should be appropriate and what laws and compliance requirements consider. It
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
The answer is most likely none.
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by tomnipotent 4mo ago
It still exists now, but it's always been a incredibly small niche role.
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
> can actually be sustainably served at $20/mo Excepts it comes with a terrible experience that's not sustainable for any serious day-to-day work that doesn't involve constant coffee breaks to wait for some tokens to get g
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
Claude Code isn't OSS, so I fail to see the connection. You're paying for compute, not access to code. I'm personally more than happy to pay for access to that compute.
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
This is a nice fantasy, but that's all it is. Most of the code used by corporations is also mostly contributed to by other corporations. Contributions by volunteers is the exception for most of the projects in this context. I also don&
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
> they are not governed by multibillion dollar companies Every tech you mentioned is absolutely governed by multibillion dollar companies. Something like 75-85% of OSS code is contributed by employees doing their day job. Most Linux and
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
My personal experience is that programmers confuse what they can do today with what they can learn to do tomorrow.
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
> you have to design to a lowest-common-denominator that balances Something that's always stuck with me is a bit from the book "Don't Make Me Think" about cost vs. value in attention and complexity, that when you add
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
You and others are confusing definition for meaning. An HN rule asks people to engage with the best interpretation of someones argument, in which case it's very clear what the OP was communicating by using "government" where
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by tomnipotent 5mo ago
What matters is what the OP was communicating with it, and in English it means all state bodies responsible for administration. No one would argue the US Supreme Court is not part of the government.

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